Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

accessible ajax

Friday, September 1st, 2006

For those interested in building accessible web applications, there is an interesting article over on Juicy Studio describing how screen readers cope with ajax applications.
I lot of my development work makes extensive use of javascript and XML, so it is interesting to read detailed descriptions of how screen readers handle such things. It raises some […]

browser bug

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I had a frustrating day at work today, writing javascript to do fancy things with XML documents and running into annoying bugs with various web browsers. I’ve come to expect bugs in Internet Explorer, but I was surprised today to find a bug in Opera’s implementation of the LSSerializer interface.
Considering that Opera seems to be […]

blockquote bug

Friday, May 20th, 2005

When I checked my blog at work today I noticed an oddity. One of the earlier posts contained a blockquoted paragraph. In Internet Explorer 6, the text within all subsequent paragraphs was displaced to the left by 7px - that is, by the same amount as the left-hand border width of the <blockquote>.
A bit of […]